Building in a separate directory

2005-05-25 Thread David Lázaro Saz
Hi there, I've been trying to build gnustep-make inside a separate directory. The directory where the sources are contains spaces in its name and configure fails. This seems to be a bug in autoconf. Some of the macros lack quotes (") that are needed is this where to function. Has someb

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-25 Thread Adam Fedor
On May 25, 2005, at 1:48 PM, David Lázaro Saz wrote: Hi there, I've been trying to build gnustep-make inside a separate directory. The directory where the sources are contains spaces in its name and configure fails. This seems to be a bug in autoconf. Some of the macros lack quotes (") t

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-26 Thread David Lázaro Saz
On 26/05/2005, at 1:00, Adam Fedor wrote: It might be nice to fix autoconf, but then you'll run into make. 'make' doesn't like spaces in directories either - and this is a fundamental design issue. But doesn't make always run in the same directory? Anyway I'm placing this on the back bu

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Fedor
On May 26, 2005, at 12:04 PM, David Lázaro Saz wrote: On 26/05/2005, at 1:00, Adam Fedor wrote: It might be nice to fix autoconf, but then you'll run into make. 'make' doesn't like spaces in directories either - and this is a fundamental design issue. But doesn't make always run in the sa

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Fedor
On May 26, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Adam Fedor wrote: if test $cross_compiling = no; then AC_FUNC_SETPGRP else #set a default value fi I was working on that, but the default for MingW is not what the normal default would be, but I wasn't entirely sure. Actually, now I look at the code, it

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-26 Thread David Lázaro Saz
On 26/05/2005, at 20:52, Adam Fedor wrote: Actually, now I look at the code, it could probably just be: if test $cross_compiling = no; then AC_FUNC_SETPGRP fi I'll try that; I think that would be sufficient too. ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list G

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: On May 26, 2005, at 12:04 PM, David Lázaro Saz wrote: On 26/05/2005, at 1:00, Adam Fedor wrote: It might be nice to fix autoconf, but then you'll run into make. 'make' doesn't like spaces in directories either - and this is a fundamental design issue. But doesn't make

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-27 Thread Nicola Pero
> > It might be nice to fix autoconf, but then you'll run into make. > > 'make' doesn't like spaces in directories either - and this is a > > fundamental design issue. > > But doesn't make always run in the same directory? Anyway I'm > placing this on the back burner for some time, and it'

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-27 Thread David Lázaro Saz
On 27/05/2005, at 13:54, Nicola Pero wrote: The make syntax uses spaces to separate filenames in list of targets or requisites, or everywhere really ... it's a basic design decision in the make syntax. Thanks for the explanation. This also explains why Apple developed a completely new

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-27 Thread Adrian Robert
On May 27, 2005, at 9:34 AM, David Lázaro Saz wrote: On 27/05/2005, at 13:54, Nicola Pero wrote: The make syntax uses spaces to separate filenames in list of targets or requisites, or everywhere really ... it's a basic design decision in the make syntax. Thanks for the explanation. This

Re: Building in a separate directory

2005-05-27 Thread Sheldon Gill
BTW, first they moved to JAM, then they internalized JAM's code into Xcode so it's not invoked as a separate process. It's possible that JAM is able to handle spaces, though maybe Apple had to modify it for this. Jam handles spaces (and a number of other things) Regards, Sheldon